Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

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• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • School
  • High
  • Song

• Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Down
  • Foot

• When did you last have fun being dignified?

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Fun
  • You
  • Have Fun

• The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Doing
  • Animation

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Principles

• Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Emotional
  • Painful
  • Luxury

• Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Never

• I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Crumbling
  • Sync
  • Hackney

• I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active... and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Mind
  • End
  • Thing

• I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Painful

• Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Words
  • Speak
  • Donation

• Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Style
  • Path
  • Journey

• Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Collaboration
  • Painful

• 'Now you understand,' Rarm said to me. 'It was the last cut against yourself to become convinced of your own hideousness. You held to it and nurtured it, and even identified with the devil goddess of Orash in your determination to be accursed. And it never occurred to you that perhaps you saw a false image under the mountain.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mountain
  • Devil
  • Determination

• Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Business
  • History
  • Famous

• The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is causing such hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician and mathematical models whose results change drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily selected variables.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Differences
  • Evidence
  • Politician

• We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.

  

  Joshua L. Liebman
  • Anxiety
  • Disease
  • Carriers

• I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Together
  • Process
  • Expression

• He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Influence
  • Slaves
  • Human Soul

• Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Painful
  • Passage
  • Rite